On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Onno Meyer wrote:
That said, maybe you can get anywhere with a more reptile like metabolism.
You have a bioconverter and power cells, and use the bioconverter mainly to
fill the powercells and the powercells to actually power the vehicle. Add a
big food storage tank and you get something like a snake, that is sluggish
when it has just eaten something and now has to lie in the sun for a long
time, until it get fast and moveable again.
That would mean the power cell is a mechanical component of a biomechanical
vehicle.
Either that, or you come up with some biotechnobabble for a
bio-powercell. To keep the look an feel right, they likely can't be
discharged in one single fast burst, but that applies also to some
conventional batteries and is AFAIK not handled with vehicle rules. And
they propably aren't distinct removable components but rather fused with
the drivetrain.
Given animals do store energy, i don't see it as too much of a stretch to
use some form of energy bank for the stats and add some flavour outside of
what is handeled by the rules to make it biological.
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